Department

• Cultural and Social Studies

Position

• Assistant Professor

• Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
• Sports and Society
• Statistics for the Social Sciences

Articles

• Opting Out: Individualism and Vaccine Refusal in Pockets of Socioeconomic Homogeneity., American Sociological Review, 85:6, 957-991, 2020
• Risk perceptions and the maintenance of environmental injustice in Appalachia., Environmental Sociology, 6:1, 54-67, 2019
• Energy consumption boomtowns in the United States: Community responses to a cryptocurrency boom., Energy Research and Social Science, 50:(April 2019), 162-167, 2019
• 
  Coal Waste, Socioeconomic Change, and Environmental Inequality in Appalachia:
  Implications for a Just Transition in Coal Country, Society & Natural Resources, 31(9), 995-1011, 2018
• The US Environmental Movement of the 1960s and 1970s: Building Frameworks of Sustainability, Routledge, Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainability, 137-150, 2018
• In the Shadow of Production: Coal Waste Accumulation and Environmental Inequality Formation in Eastern Kentucky, Social Science Research, 71(March 2018), 37-55, 2018
• Disproportionality and Resource-Based Environmental Inequality: An Analysis of Neighborhood Proximity to Coal Impoundments in Appalachia, Rural Sociology, 82(1), 149-178, 2017
• Spatial Inequality and Uneven Rural Development: The Local Stratification of Poverty in Appalachia, Journal of Appalachian Studies, 22(2), 187-209, 2016
• Strengthening Sociological Research Through Public Records Requests, Social Currents, 3(2), 110-117, 2016

Editing and Reviews

• Book Review: The War on Leakers: National Security and American Democracy from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden by Lloyd Gardner, Surveillance and Society, 15(2), 347-348, 2017

Presentations

• Absentee Landowner Attitudes in Japan: Analyzing Traditional Values About Agricultural Land. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York. August 9-13, 2019. (Co-authored with Yohei Katano and Jon Agnone.), 2019
• Examining the Acceptance of New Resource-based Rural Development across Three Industries. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Richmond, Va. August 7-10, 2019. (Co-authored with Dylan Bugden.), 2019
• The Policy Implications of Rural Poverty Research: Perspectives from the 2019 AECF/RUPRI Rural Poverty Fellowship. Panelist. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Richmond, Va. August 7-10. (Moderated by Emily Wornell.), 2019
• The Lasting Impact of Redlining on Racial Segregation in Omaha. Nebraska GIS/LIS Symposium. La Vista, NE. April 24-26, 2019., 2019
• Risk Perceptions of Coal Impoundments in West Virginia: Industry Trust and Risk Habituation in Appalachia. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Penn. , 2018
• Community and Regulatory Response to Cryptocurrency Mining in Washington State. Energy Impacts Summit. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. May 4, 2018.
   , 2018
• The Local Stratification of Poverty in Appalachia. Rural Poverty Research Institute: Rural Poverty: Fifty Years After The People Left Behind. Poster session. Washington, D.C. March 21-22, 2018.   
   , 2018
• Policy and Research Workshop: Rethinking Data Collection with Public Records Requests: Perspectives from the U.S. and Canada. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montréal, Québec. August 12-15, 2017., 2017
• Translating Sociological Methods to Marketable Skills: Practical Advice for Professionalization in Undergraduate Methods Instruction. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montréal, Québec. August 12-15, 2017.
   , 2017
• Coal Waste, Socioeconomic Change, and Environmental Inequality in Appalachia: Implications for a Just Transition in Coal Country. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Columbus, OH. July 28-30, 2017.
   , 2017

Research and Scholarship Interests

• Environmental Inequality, Rural Sociology, Spatial Analysis, Social Science Statistics, Survey Research Methods